what do you think about robinson?Do you want to be ik him?Let's discuss and analyze Robinson.
what do you think about robinson?Do you want to be ik him?Let's discuss and analyze Robinson.
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
Jimmy Durante
It looks like you posted this quite awhile ago. However, if you should still like to discuss Robinson Crusoe, I'm in.
This story in some ways reminded me of Edmond Dantes (The Count of Monte Cristo). In both stories you have a character who is trapped; one on an island of solitude, the other imprisoned in a state of confusion and ineptidude. And in both stories the characters are forced to go beyond their habit-patterns of thought, to look within, and to find the engenuity and inner creative drives necessary to their survival and to attain what they need.
While I was a little dissapointed in Robinson's failure to find the necessary strength within himself (he relied on the so-called Providence of God) I did find the story to be very entertaining.
"You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead - dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist - and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself." E.A. Poe
"It is better to be hurt by the truth, than to be comforted by a lie." - Unknown
he's a control freak. reminds me of my father, actually.
He was inventive person with lot of personal abilities. His life was hard on the island. He had to work morning to night in the dangerous forests.Without weapons.Created his own world, where he could be alive. The book is about strong and creative person with unbrokenable mind.Which he use for all the fight against the doom.
I like this book. It reminds me the childhood of mine.
I have to wonder about him.
He constantly refers to people that he saved as "such and such" whose life I had saved. Like that Spanish guy who later became the governor of the island in Robinsons absence.
And what about that? Robinson sends the Spaniard and Fridays father off to fetch back the other spaniards. Then when this ship shows up and he helps to take it back from the mutinous crew....he just gets on board and leaves. Couldn't he have waited a week or so for the Spanish guys to get there? No. He just takes off and leaves the place condemning them to the same life on the island that he just got saved from. That captain would have hung around for a while since he was so much in Ronbinson's debt.
And then he goes back to England and discovers that he is rich. Gee, couldn't he have sent a ship back for them? And when he finally got around to going back there 7 years later what does he do? He takes them some clothes and supplies of tools rather than getting them the heck off that rock. It's like he wants to keep them there so he can watch and see what kind of colony he created. All well and good for him....he doesn't have to stay there and toil without the comforts of civilisation. All the worse because after spending all that time there, he should know that it is no picnic.
When the crew of his nephews ship mutinees against him because he is such a pushy bore; I had to laugh at the justice of it all. But he really had no clue. He figured it was all their problem.
In spite of all this; I find his account fascinating. Been reading it over and over for 30 years. Well, no. Not constantly. But every now and then, I take out that battered old copy and rediscover all thats inside.
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